Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offend families, not to advertise Esquire, but to illustrate an exceptional demonstration of Latin pride TIME reported the official furor in Cuba over Esquire's article belittling the amorous abilities of Central and South Americans...
Many a U. S. newsorgan was snipped or censored in Cuba while "Tyrant" President Gerardo Machado domineered, but last week his more liberal successors found something which even they resolved to suppress. Cubans lounging in sidewalk cafes had scarcely noticed that some of their U. S. visitors were reading an Esquire article entitled "Latins Are Lousy Lovers" when the Government swooped clown, confiscated all current newsstand copies of this masculine equivalent of Vogue and threw into jail luckless Marcial Perez, a partner in the firm which sells Esquire in Cuba...
Much as Vogue bolsters up U. S. feminine morale in the struggle to excel in beauty & charm against all comers, so Esquire sought to cry courage to U. S. males with an article claiming to be based on five months of U. S. feminine research in Cuba and points South. "It is a common belief all over the world that Latin men are the best lovers and Americans the worst," declared Esquire. "This is a hoax...
...from 19 to 28, the guides form a seemingly intellectual body. Most of them carried on graduate work during the summer. Two will receive Ph.D's in Fine Arts this year; another joins the faculty this fall. One has been appointed instructor in econofies, and another will travel to Cuba after the celebration to take up a teaching position...
...Leghorn convent. At 10 he is apprenticed to and given his last name by the Scottish merchant who by a happy chance, though Anthony never finds out, is his maternal grandfather. He marries the cook's daughter (Olivia de Havilland), leaves her to collect a debt in Cuba, goes to Africa to make a fortune in the slave trade, returns to Leghorn to find his Angela gone, his grandfather dead and the family housekeeper misbehaving with a grandee who Anthony does not know was his mother's husband. Having escaped the efforts of this malevolent pair to force...